Normed Tukwila Quotes

#1. The most basic rule of editing is that if you can't bear to read it, no one else can either. So when you find yourself skimming, commit murder.

Marion Roach Smith

#2. I have the irrational habit of not listening to people who tell me what to do

Joan Smith

#3. Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis.

James Taylor

#4. often come to our cabin in the evening to get additional help with their lessons.

Eliza Spalding Warren

#5. I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about.

Thom Gunn

#6. There is nothing in this game of golf that can't be improved upon if you practice.

Patty Berg

#7. Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

Thomas Sowell

#8. I think there is often a 'what if' proposition that gets me thinking about all my novels.

John Irving

#9. The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat and toil, ten per cent joy.

Siobhan Dowd

#10. Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states ...

Tennessee Williams

#11. Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they're from.

Wiz Khalifa

#12. Arrogant people beat each other.

Toba Beta

#13. Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

Holly Black

#14. Terrorism emanates from weakness, not strength. It is the sign of despair.

Tariq Ali